Creatively Recycling Straws: 10 Useful and Original Ideas

Il creative recycling of straws It's a pastime that can help us avoid wasting them. Ask yourself how to recycle them It is natural in the era we live in, characterized by profound attention to the health of our planet in response to the waste and pollution that has resulted.

Luckily, there are many creative recycling ideas featuring plastic straws (and even paper ones) that are definitely worth considering. From flowers to hot air balloons to floating solids. We'll leave you with several: take note.

Balloons

The first is a creative idea, which can serve both as a decoration for the little ones' bedrooms and as a toy. Or, why not, even as a party decoration, perhaps one of the baby showers that are so trendy today. To create these cute hot air balloons you only need some paper baking cups, straws and balloons.

Flowers

Realize the flowers with straws It's very simple, and you can do it in at least two ways:

• Using the whole straw as a stem, and applying the petals on this
• By cutting the straw into many small rings and using them as petals, gluing them concentrically around a central point on a paper disk

Pen

Starting from one toilet paper roll finished, you can also get a cheerful penholder with straws. Simply glue them all around with hot glue or PVA glue, and wait for the glue to dry completely before completing the creation with a pretty colored ribbon.

Children's game

Straws can be used in the context of games for children, for example, to blow into to move objects. It could be a feather, a boat placed in a basin, or colored balls inside a wooden box. The sky's the limit.

Festoons

With many straws of different colors, specially bent to create stars, you can instead create some Carnival festoons and not perfect for livening up many convivial occasions. Nothing simpler or more economical.

Curly hair

Creative recycling of plastic straws also includes hairstyles. You can use them to make curly hairCurling your hair with straws is super easy.

• Take a small lock of hair and spray it with water from a spray bottle starting from the hairline.
• Roll your hair around it, then secure it with a hairpin.
• Leave them on for a couple of hours or better still all night, then remove all the straws

Frame

With a good number of straws you can create a photo frameGlue them together in groups of three and then use the groups to create the sides of a rectangle. You can decorate the frame with some buttons or applications of your choice.

Pan flute

Among the games with straws for children there is also the pan flute. It's one strumento musicale of ancient origins that can be made in just a few minutes.

• Cut the straws into different sizes
• Place a long piece of tape on a flat surface with the sticky side facing up.
• Carefully glue the straws, from the longest to the shortest.
• Secure them by sticking the adhesive tape on top too

Christmas Crafts

A question that concerns many parents the day after their children's birthday party is what to do with colored straws that are left over. Well, you can give life to some Christmas decorations Super cute. Just like the ones you see in the photo, requiring nothing more than string and glue. And a little patience.

Solids on the fly 

We had anticipated them for you and here they are: the solids on the fly, which can be made with little ones in just a few moments to familiarize them with angles and geometric shapes in the simplest way possible. Get some play dough to hold everything together easily.

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